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19 November 2024
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23 October 2024
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21 October 2024
Man found guilty of rape, burglary
24 September 2024
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5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
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23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
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7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
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3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
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31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
17 January 2023
PM Brown eager to hand over Forum chair role to Tonga
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Challenging ‘rape culture’
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Hydro power boost from China
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Regional
Papua New Guinea – Papua New Guinea’s electricity provider hopes it can provide uninterrupted power supply to the country’s capital city Port Moresby
Veteran adamant he sprayed Agent Orange
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Regional
GUAM – A Vietnam War veteran, who says he used Agent Orange on Guam during the war, says the people of Guam deserve to know the truth.
Tonga tourism chasing ambitious targets
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Regional
TONGA – Tonga’s government has doubled the earnings goals for the tourism sector in the hope that it will play a bigger part in building a strong economy.
PACIFIC BRIEFS 8/2/2017
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Regional
FUGITIVE US SAILOR TO BE EXTRADITED TONGA – The federal court in Honolulu has allowed the extradition of an American man wanted for the murder of his wife in Tonga.
TIS staff support shark research
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Environment
This column is supplied by Te Ipukarea Society. It discusses conservation and environmental matters of concern to the Cook Islands.
Papa Pia is back on air
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Local
Thanks to the generosity of members of the American Radio Relay League-affiliated Western Washington DX Club (WWDXC), Pia “Papa Pia” Taraeka, E51PT, of Manihiki, is back on the air after a three-decade absence. “My interest in amateur radio started around 1962 as a radio operator working for the Cook Island and New Zealand governments,” Papa Pia said. “My primary job was relaying radio Morse code traffic destined for the Cook Islands and other places, including New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti, and Niue.” Papa Pia is on CW and SSB, 80 through 10 meters, running 100 W to an all-band dipole. — Thanks to The Daily DX
Volunteer goes where she is needed
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Local
As a volunteer you must go where you would be needed the most and New Zealand volunteer Roanna Salunga was eager to volunteer in Rarotonga.
Two years on and what has changed?
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT IS always a good idea to do a spring clean once a year and you always find some lost items, or ones of interest you had forgotten about.
Raise the drinking age from 18 to 21
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Now we have a stabbing to add to our multiple shootings … what next?
A need for change
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I write with disappointment at CIRU for their decision on Stan Wright’s outspoken mind and his visions (through his Strategic Plan – it’s available for all to read).
PM jets off again?
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The Office of the Prime Minister’s spin doctors appear to be in the dark about the whereabouts - or reasons - for the prime minister traveling to Singapore.
Sober choice? Maybe not
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
A drunken man, barely able to stand, was swaying around Raro Fried Chicken mid-afternoon on Sunday.
168 asylum seekers to be deported - PNG starts arrangements to send non-refugees home
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The Papua New Guinea government is finalising arrangements to deport 168 asylum seekers from the Australian run camp on Manus Island back to their home countries.
Media ban remains in force
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A ban on local and international journalists having access to the Manus Regional Processing Centre and the Manus Transit Centre is still in place, Acting Immigration chief migration officer Solomon Kantha said.
PNG cabinet ministers accused of fraud
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
Papua NEW GUINEA – Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has announced that two of his cabinet ministers are standing aside pending a probe into their involvement in alleged fraud.
Media ban at marae 'juvenile' says Peters
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – A media ban at Waitangi’s Te Tii marae was “juvenile” and “silly” and showed how out of touch its trustees were, said New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.
PM English pays tribute to Ngati Whatua at Orakei
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Prime Minister Bill English has acknowledged Ngati Whatua and the occupation of Bastion Point at Waitangi Day commemorations in Auckland.
$300m worth of cocaine intercepted on Kiwi yacht
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – A New Zealand-registered boat, seized off the coast of New South Wales, is at the centre of a huge cocaine bust.
PACIFIC BRIEFS 7/2/2016
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Regional
ASIANS SURVEYED ON SAFETY CONCERNS
Island life researcher graduates
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Published in Local
A New Zealand researcher with a 30-year interest in Pacific education and development, lived on Mangaia for four months to explore the case for more indigenous knowledge and culture in education,
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